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Bottom 100 lists are sometimes pointless because all the scrubs and practice-squad players are worse than these guys.
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Originally posted by Miggyfan99 -
Yeah, Leeland was not very good, but he was super-hyped. One of my favorite RB selections was the Bears 1st round pick in 1988. You have all these eventual 1000-yard rushers (Gaston Green, Ironhead Heyward, John Stephens, Ickey Woods), you have one of the greatest RBs ever in Thurman Thomas, you have the best RB I've ever seen in the Big10 in Lorenzo White (whose NFL career was short-circuited by the idiotic Jerry Glanville, who insisted on playing Mike Rozier and Allen Pinkett in front of him)...and the Bears end up with this idiot.
Muster had one season in his career when he gained more than 425 yards, and that was his 'huge' season of 664 yards, which was by far his best ever.Comment
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Glanville had Alonzo Highsmith on those teams as well, if I recall. He carried all four of those HB's, on a run 'n shoot team, and insisted in finding carries for all of them.Comment
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Actually, I have to be fair to Glanville. Whenever I played Tecmo Super Bowl, I would use the Oilers, and rotate all four HB's, too.Comment
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Yeah, you had Highsmith, who had some of the worst hands ever and would fumble the ball every 5th attempt. You had Allen Pinkett, who had no discernible talent whatsoever. You had Mike Rozier, who's only quality was "durability"...he had below average speed, no power, and also fumbled quite often. Then you had Lorenzo White, who was easily the best runner of the group. So what does Glanville do? He rotates them in the most bizarre fashion...White is the short-yardage guy instead of Highsmith, Highsmith is left in on passing downs instead of Pinkett, Pinkett gets a ton of carries instead of White...it was a joke. Once Glanville left and Jack Pardee became coach, White actually got to play, but Glanville had already wasted some of White's best years.Comment
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I will admit Muster was one of my favorite Bears players growing up..Yeah, Leeland was not very good, but he was super-hyped. One of my favorite RB selections was the Bears 1st round pick in 1988. You have all these eventual 1000-yard rushers (Gaston Green, Ironhead Heyward, John Stephens, Ickey Woods), you have one of the greatest RBs ever in Thurman Thomas, you have the best RB I've ever seen in the Big10 in Lorenzo White (whose NFL career was short-circuited by the idiotic Jerry Glanville, who insisted on playing Mike Rozier and Allen Pinkett in front of him)...and the Bears end up with this idiot.
Muster had one season in his career when he gained more than 425 yards, and that was his 'huge' season of 664 yards, which was by far his best ever.
However in fairness to the draft pick they already had Neal Anderson as the featured back and chose Muster to be a fullback. The pick they should have made if they were looking for a fullback was Ironhead, who ironically enough came to Chicago in 1993(and I loved using in Madden 94). On top of that Heyward never had a season as a FB that really surpassed anything Muster did. Their average seasons as FB's were pretty comparable.Comment
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To me, that makes the pick even worse! The 1988 draft was one of the deepest in NFL history, and the Bears use their 1st round pick on a fullback?? I can't think of another time when a team used a 1st round pick on a fullback who wasn't really ever going to carry the ball (unless you count Tim Tebow). When the Bears wasted a top pick on Curtis Enis, they at least tried to have him play HB...converting him to FB was a last-ditch effort.Comment
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If a FullBacks football card has a picture of him high stepping and carrying the ball in the palm of one hand you know you've made a bad pick.
Its like a card showing a QB making a proper form tackle.Best reason to have a license.
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